Odyssey : young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the voyage that changed the world / Tom Chaffin.

"Charles Darwin--alongside Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein--ranks among the world's most famous scientists. In popular imagination, he peers at us from behind a bushy white Old Testament beard. This image of Darwin the Sage, however, crowds out the vital younger man whose curiosities, risk-taking,...

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Main Author: Chaffin, Tom (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2022.
Edition:First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
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Physical Description:xxi, 362 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table, maps ; 24 cm
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505 0 |a Maps -- The Wedgwood and Darwin family tree -- Introduction: Hiding in plain sights -- "We philosophers do not bargain for this kind of work" August 1833 -- Shropshire lad, 1809-1831 -- Odysseus unbound, 1832 -- Austral climbs, 1832-1833 -- Round the horn, 1834-1836 -- Great Britain, 1836-1882 -- Epilogue: Advice for travelers -- Acknowledgements -- Image credits -- A note on sources and style -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Index 
520 |a "Charles Darwin--alongside Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein--ranks among the world's most famous scientists. In popular imagination, he peers at us from behind a bushy white Old Testament beard. This image of Darwin the Sage, however, crowds out the vital younger man whose curiosities, risk-taking, and travels aboard HMS Beagle would shape his later theories and served as the foundation of his scientific breakthroughs. Though storied, the Beagle's voyage is frequently misunderstood, its mission and geographical breadth unacknowledged. The voyage's activities associated with South America--particularly its stop in the Galapagos archipelago, off Ecuador's coast--eclipse the fact that the Beagle, sailing in Atlantic, Pacific and Indian ocean waters, also circumnavigated the globe. Mere happenstance placed Darwin aboard the Beagle--an invitation to sail as a conversation companion on natural-history topics for the ship's depression-prone captain. Darwin was only twenty-two years old, an unproven, unknown, aspiring geologist when the ship embarked on what stretched into its five-year voyage. Moreover, conducting marine surveys of distance ports and coasts, the Beagle's purposes were only inadvertently scientific. And with no formal shipboard duties or rank, Darwin, after arranging to meet the Beagle at another port, often left the ship to conduct overland excursions. Those outings, lasting weeks, even months, took him across mountains, pampas, rainforests, and deserts. An expert horseman and marksman, he won the admiration of gauchos he encountered along the way ..."--Amazon.com. 
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